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  2. Spiller Farm Paleoindian Site - Wikipedia

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    September 12, 2003. The Spiller Farm Paleoindian Site, designated Site 4.13 by the Maine Archaeological Survey, is a prehistoric archaeological site in Wells, Maine. Located overlooking a stream on the Spiller Farm property on Branch Road, it is an extensive site at which a fine collection of stone artifacts has been found, dating to c. 8,000 BCE.

  3. Swan's Landing Archeological Site - Wikipedia

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    The massive numbers of stone tools recovered at Swan's Landing indicate that the site was employed as a factory for stone tools from nearby stone outcrops. Some tools were produced at the site,: 208 and many blanks were also produced there for reduction at other locations. Because virtually all stone tools found at the site are made of local ...

  4. Willard Brook Quarry - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. September 26, 1986. The Willard Brook Quarry is a prehistoric stone quarry site in a remote portion of Piscataquis County, Maine. The quarry site is located on one of a series of outcrops near Munsungan Lake in north-central Maine, all of which have yielded stone tools found at prehistoric sites throughout northern New England.

  5. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    Stone tools Sterkfontein Member 5 [47] 1.1-1.6 Ma South Africa Southern Africa Stone tools, Homo and Paranthropus remains Barranco León [48] 1.2-1.4 Ma Spain Western Europe Stone tools, animal bones, bone flakes Bois de Riquet US 2 [49] [50] 1.2 Ma France Western Europe Stone tools Wolo Sege, So'a Basin [51] 1 Ma Flores, Indonesia Island ...

  6. Goddard Site - Wikipedia

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    May 7, 1979. The Goddard Site is a prehistoric archaeological site in Brooklin, Maine. The site is notable for the large number of stone artifacts found, most of which were sourced at locations well removed from the area, and for the presence of worked copper artifacts. It is most widely known as the claimed location at which the Maine penny, a ...

  7. Rumford Archaeological Sites - Wikipedia

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    The number and quality of the ceramics found here are the best in the area. Relatively few stone artifacts were found here. The style of the ceramics found are consistent with finds elsewhere dated to the Early and Middle Woodland Periods. Rumford Falls III. This site, Maine Survey Number 49.26, is located on a terrace above the river.

  8. Ellerbusch site - Wikipedia

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    March 14, 1991. The Ellerbusch site ( 12-W-56) is a small but significant archaeological site in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Unlike many sites created by people of the same culture, it occupies an upland site near a major river floodplain. Its existence appears to have been the result of the coincidence of periods of ...

  9. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to Marble.com, in 2016 there were 276 quarries producing natural stone in 34 states, and states producing the most granite were Texas, Massachusetts, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Georgia. [1] The term "quarry" refers also to sites producing aggregate, molding sand, or other resources besides cut stone.